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Chou Wen-Chung on Varèse: An Interview

Chou Wen-Chung on Varèse: An Interview Don GIllespIe : An Interview dg: How did you have the good fortune to meet edgard Varèse? chou: Well, the process of meeting him took quite some time. long before I met him or knew anything about him, I had already heard his music and was shocked. That was in 1946, only a year after the second World War, when I first came to this country and enrolled at the new england Conservatory, having decided to give up the study of architecture at Yale University. Towards the end of the first semester, the teacher Warren storey smith, a longtime critic for the Boston Herald and author of a music history book, decided to amuse the class with what he considered some unusual music. so one morning he suddenly put on a record, and I could see that he had a funny expression on his face with a little smile, watching us intently to see how we would react. And all I heard was Don Gillespie received his ph.D. from the University of north Carolina with a dissertation on "John Becker, Midwestern Musical Crusader." He recently retired from C. F. peters Corporation, where, as vice-president and director of special http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

Chou Wen-Chung on Varèse: An Interview

Gillespie, Don C.
American Music , Volume 27 (4) – Feb 26, 2009
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Don GIllespIe : An Interview dg: How did you have the good fortune to meet edgard Varèse? chou: Well, the process of meeting him took quite some time. long before I met him or knew anything about him, I had already heard his music and was shocked. That was in 1946, only a year after the second World War, when I first came to this country and enrolled at the new england Conservatory, having decided to give up the study of architecture at Yale University. Towards the end of the first semester, the teacher Warren storey smith, a longtime critic for the Boston Herald and author of a music history book, decided to amuse the class with what he considered some unusual music. so one morning he suddenly put on a record, and I could see that he had a funny expression on his face with a little smile, watching us intently to see how we would react. And all I heard was Don Gillespie received his ph.D. from the University of north Carolina with a dissertation on "John Becker, Midwestern Musical Crusader." He recently retired from C. F. peters Corporation, where, as vice-president and director of special

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